Safety-pin



(No Model.)

H. s. BREWINGTON. SAFETY PIN.

74. Patented June 28, 1898.

HENRY S. BREVVINGTON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

sAFETY- P] N.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,374, dated June 28,1898. Application filed November 153, 1897. Serial No. 658,485. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY S. BRE WINGTON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented anew and useful Safety-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to safety-pins,and more especially to that class ofsafety-pins made wholly of wire, one end of which forms the pin and theother the shield to receive the.

point of the pin when in use. i

The object of my invention is to provide a safetypin of this class withan improved shield for the point which shall be simple, cheap, strongand durable and which will permit of the ready entrance of the point ofthe pin into the shield from either side of approach thereto.

WVith this object in view my invention consists in a safety-pin andpoint-shield made of a single piece of wire, one end ofwhich is pointedto form the pin proper, the central portion being coiled to form thespring, the main body of the pin, which connects the shield with thespring-coil, being substantially parallel to the pin portion, and theouter end of the body portion being bent upward and given a return-bendsubstantially in the reverse of the direction of the body portion,thence bent to form a singlecoil upon one side of its return-bend,thence over the outside of the return-bend, and again bent on theopposite side of the return-bend to form another coil, these coils, withtheir connect.- ing portion and the return-bend of the body, forming theshield to receive the point of the pin when locked in position.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention mostnearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specificatiou, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective View of a safetypin constructed in accordancewith my invention, with the pin in its open position and shown in itsclosed position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a view of the same in sideelevation, the pin being locked in the shield. Fig. 3 is a top plan viewof the pin as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. at is a fragmentary detailperspective view ofthe shield and a portion of the body, part of the pinbeing shown in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a top plan View of the shield andthe point end of the pin proper in position in the shield. Fig. 6 is atransverse vertical sectional view taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2,looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 7 is a view in elevation ofthe shield end of the pin.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever .they occur inthe various is curved upward and then given a returnbend, as at G, fromwhich point it is bent to form a coil H on one side, which ends at thepoint I, from whence the wire is bent at J over the top of thereturn-bend G, and again bent into the form of a coil K, which ends atthe point L against the cross-bend J.

The coils H and K begin and end at the same point, which is directly ina vertical line with the point B of the pin A, and their inner portionsare slightly apartto permit of the free entrance of the point of the pinbetween them when passed under them from either side, andithe locationofthe bendJ with reference to the coils, as well as the location of thecoils themselves, will cause the pin-point when pressed toward theshield to slide off the bend J of the shielduponbne side or the other.

main body until it can be adjusted into the shield from below.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that I have producedan exceedingly cheap, simple, strong, and durable pin of the classdescribed, and while I have illustrated and described what I consider tobe the best means for carrying out my invention I do not wish to beunderstood as restricting myself to the exact details of constructionshown and described, but hold that any slight changes, such as mightsuggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic, would properly fall withinthe limit and scope of my invention. Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

The herein-described safety-pin, formed of a single piece of Wire,comprising the pin abutting, at L, against the cross-bend J, all 25substantially as described.

' HENRY S. BREWINGTON. WVitnesses:

ROBERT C. RHODES, HARRY E. GILBERT.

